My take on Encoder just from seeing other posts on this forum, is that it's not alway correct. My take would be to go w/ CPT. I have 3M and look where that led me? Otherwise, I'd have to say use the unlisted code (yuck, no one wants that) but I really do feel CPT is correct.

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